vortical

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vortical - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vortical \Vor"ti*cal\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex
     in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. --
     Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

vortical - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "vortical":
     affluent, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, confluent, coursing,
     cyclonic, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, flowing, fluent,
     fluxional, fluxive, gulfy, gushing, gyral, gyrational, gyratory,
     gyrostatic, mazy, meandering, pouring, profluent, racing, rotary,
     rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, serpentine, sluggish,
     streaming, surging, surgy, swirly, tidal, tornadic, trochilic,
     vertiginous, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy,
     whirly